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Letter of 1874 March 12

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that a second or fellow-colossus originally guarded the opposite/ 'door-post' and has less reason to wonder that that has passed away,/ in the lime-kiln or other destructive process, than that this should/ have been spared. And the state of its preservation is such as/ fully warrants the cost of its rescue & transmission to a locality/ where [?] classes of the generation, & of all succeeding generations/ would pause to gaze with wonder & interest at the 'authentic/ portrait of the Ramses of the Exodus--the great conqueror/ IId of his name of the glorious XIX Dynasty, remarkable for/ the length of his years and of his reign, as is indicated by the/ terms of the Hebrew chronicle, translated "in the process of time."/ The grandeur of the style in which the features of [blank] are modelled[sic]/ has never been surpassed. As an evidence of portrait-sculpture/ at a date antecedent to Phidias by [blank] years, it would be/ beyond all value in the Museum of a School of Art./ The conventional & as it seems to us unnatural high position of the ears/ is [blank] I examined those of the group of Fellahs who, as/ usual surrounded us with their proferred bits of antiquities. There was/ an ardent difference: the ears-lobes in the majority descended to the horizontal/ line intersecting the nasal [?]: but there was one young man with/ the/
'And it came to pass in process of (or in long work of) time that the King of Egypt/ died; & the children of Israel {died [crossed out]} sighed by reason of the bondage." Exod: ii, 23./
By whom were they brought into bondage--Joseph stood, according to the generations,/ exactly between Abraham and Moses./
"And there arose up a new King over Egypt, which knew not Joseph" Ex. i, 8./

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that a second or fellow-colossus originally guarded the opposite/ 'door-post' and has less reason to wonder that that has passed away,/ in the lime-kiln or other destructive process, than that this should/ have been spared. And the state of its preservation is such as/ fully warrants the cost of its rescue & transmission to a locality/ where [?] classes of the generation, & of all succeeding generations/ would pause to gaze with wonder & interest at the 'authentic/ portrait of the Ramses of the Exodus--the great conqueror/ IId of his name of the glorious XIX Dynasty, remarkable for/ the length of his years and of his reign, as is indicated by the/ terms of the Hebrew chronicle, translated "in the process of time."/ The grandeur of the style in which the features of [blank] are modelled[sic]/ has never been surpassed. As an evidence of portrait-sculpture/ at a date antecedent to Phidias by [blank] years, it would be/ beyond all value in the Museum of a School of Art./ The conventional & as it seems to us unnatural high position of the ears/ is [blank] I examined those of the group of Fellahs who, as/ usual surrounded us with their proferred bits of antiquities. There was/ an ardent difference: the ears-lobes in the majority descended to the horizontal/ line intersecting the nasal [?]: but there was one young man with/ the/
'And it came to pass in process of (or in long work of) time that the King of Egypt/ died; & the children of Israel {died [crossed out]} sighed by reason of the bondage." Exod: ii, 23./
By whom were they brought into bondage--Joseph stood, according to the generations,/ exactly between Abraham and Moses./
"And there arose up a new King over Egypt, which knew not Joseph" Ex. i, 8./